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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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Can’t believe I’m allowing myself to believe in electoral politics again. Because of this.
But the difference this time…no really, Zohran’s movement, aligned with DSA and consisting of over 50k canvassers (which is staggering), is the thing that really makes me want to help push this over the top.
With a movement behind you comes leverage.
Thing is, he must be willing to mobilize it for massive rallies that will be needed to get the agenda across.
And, we have to make the billionaire scumbags fear us. And that means humongous Tax The Rich rallies.
But most effectively I think DSA must mobilize rallies outside of the meeting Zohran will have with “business leaders,” the NYPD, etc. Especially that those Wall Street criminals and oligarchs think they can siphon him off, basically tell him who’s boss. When they say or imply that he should be able to say, “look out the window down into the street; there are 20,000 people down there. They’re boss!”
They need to know We Are Many.
It really does seem like an incredible opportunity to finally realize some real socialism in this hellhole country.
40,000 people volunteered and canvassed for Zorhan. Tie that with a bow. We are witnessing a pretty collosal shift fam
What needs to happen now is you need to find the most willing to organize ones of that group, and get them into more structured organizations while the iron is hot. If theyre allowed to think oh we won the election time to go home and think everythings over then it's pointless. But if you can get some of them to join the Socialist Rifle Organization, and get weapons training, or to transition to organizing with the PSL then that has real value.
Electoral campigns are temporary. They are good at getting a lot of people involved because its socially acceptable to do electoralism, but after the elections they evaporate. It's not a vehicle for sustained revolutionairy action. You need a vanguard party for that. So the goal should be to take the people who are pulled in by the electoral campaign and direct them to permanent political movements. Eventually if you have a lot of decently sized groups that are permanent and revolutionary they can unite into a proper vanguard party.
The good news is that this is the baseline understanding of every organizer in the DSA. Don't make the mistakes of Occupy, build permament structured organizations.